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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI think it is time to step up the boycotting.
We've seen it over and over again. Boycotting works. We shut down Apartheid in South Africa by divesting, which is a form of boycotting. Chick Fil-a's policies towards LGBTQ was changed from a boycott.
These people know NOTHING except money and power. That is ALL that matters to them.
It would be nice to get a million people in the streets in DC, or even a national strike. But the american people are busy working, putting food on the table. how many people are going to take time off work to go to a rally? And the rally would end and they would do nothing.
Enter the boycott. Something every single American can do from the comfort of their own home, without taking time off work, without jeopardizing anything.
My boycott idea would be, instead of watering it down and giving people a long list of companies to boycott, leaving them almost nowhere to shop, start at the top and do one at a time.
I would boycott two companies: The biggest advertiser on Fox and the biggest contributor to the republican party.
I'm not sure but I would guess that Geico is the biggest advertiser on Fox. Could you imagine if half of Geico's customers called up and cancelled their account?
Once they are taken down and are no longer the biggest advertiser on Fox, then we boycott whoever replaces them as the biggest advertiser on Fox.
If you hit them in the paycheck THEY WILL NOTICE and THEY WILL CARE. Until then, they will laugh at you.
If we start a huge national boycott system that is easy to follow and pointed at only one or two companies at a time and hits them hard for supporting Trump, they WILL NOTICE and it will have an affect.
Who's in?
REC this thread if you think it's time for a NATIONAL BOYCOTT of the biggest advertisers on Fox News and the biggest contributors to the republican party
Cousin Dupree
(1,866 posts)pandr32
(11,612 posts)MichMan
(11,971 posts)and deliberately crashed it the first week. If was done hard enough to total it, Geico would end up paying tens of thousands of dollars out in each claim while only receiving a week or so of premiums.
Just need to plaster it with s bunch of anti Trump bumper stickers first
garybeck
(9,942 posts)we are on the side of truth, remember!
SAMi American Girl
(8 posts)Boycotting a business hits them where rhere heart is, in their pocketbooks. Not fraud, but honestly telling them you won't support liars, and they shouldn't either.
2naSalit
(86,775 posts)If you have a claim with them, even with full coverage, they will fuck you out of our money and not pay you a dime. It happened to me when their contracted tow company totaled my car, they told me to keep driving a car that was not drivable without $4K in repairs for starters.
When I replaced the vehicle by adding it to the other car's loan, I went directly to a different ins. company and told GEICO to shove it.
MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)several other discount insurance companies...Progressive is another that rat fucks people out of their rightful claims. Theyre renowned for it around here.
2naSalit
(86,775 posts)When I had my last work injury I was out of work for eleven months and I let the ins. on my vehicle lapse because I had $0. When I tried to reinstate it, I had to go with Progressive for six months, as soon as that was up, I went back to my regular company. Both companies pissed me off since the original, State Farm, jacked up the rates for the first six months that I couldn't afford it. They were nicer about when I was switching back.
Anyway, you really have to shop around for insurance that you can afford. For me it's strictly liability for both vehicles because they are older. I haven't had a ticket in decades, I'm very careful when I drive and if there's an accident, it's not going to be my fault.
SAMi American Girl
(8 posts)Thank you. I have started new leaves and DU is one.
Your idea is good, but let us think about this and work smarter, not harder.
Garybeck, U R right, and this will be my first comment, so pardon me if I think we need to twist this a little smarter. Let all GIECO customers (me too) insist they stop advertising on Fox, ( if they are the largest contributors ). Then let GIECO decide if they want to avoid the crisis. LET THEM CHAMPION Truth, fairness and the American way! OR NOT AND LOOSE!
Thank you for listening
Maraya1969
(22,497 posts)garybeck
(9,942 posts)your idea good. always give a person/company/entity a chance to change before you take action.
I would twist it a little more. Each time the target company is determined, first they are delivered a letter by registered mail to the CEO, explaining what we are doing and why. the letter is shared publicly. They are given a certain amount of time to pull their ads from Fox, or the boycott begins.
i like it. it's good marketing. also helps get the word out, with the letter.
SAMi American Girl
(8 posts)Thank you for your kind reply and suggestion to give it the corporate uph! I would like to know who and when the letter is written ( you sound qualified. After it is sent, with a deadline I think all us Gieco customers should call in to back it up! Watcha say everyone?
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Of companies that didnt advertise on hate merchant shows
I remember it listed here years ago
Roland99
(53,342 posts)And will refuse to use their services or recommend them to others
garybeck
(9,942 posts)long lists of companies to boycott don't work.
One at a time.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)Initech
(100,102 posts)Allstate, State Farm, Progressive, Geico... these are some of the biggest advertisers on TV period. Maybe if they got the hint, it would start a ripple effect.
2naSalit
(86,775 posts)already is for us.
Wednesdays
(17,408 posts)Kill two birds with one stone.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)OliverQ
(3,363 posts)but that never seems to work.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)mahina
(17,696 posts)garybeck
(9,942 posts)n/t
Malmsy
(297 posts)lamp_shade
(14,841 posts)jcmaine72
(1,773 posts)Never tune in to their propaganda news channel, website, or any of the other channels, apps or services they own and operate. If a baseball or football game I want to watch is on Fox, I'll download or stream a pirated copy of it. They can go straight to Satan's gloryhole.
hunter
(38,326 posts)Television made Trump, they can eat him.
There's no cable, no satellite, no broadcast television in our house.
We watch DVDs and Netflix. Netflix is $8.99 a month.
abakan
(1,819 posts)I have been boycotting, walmart, home depot, chick fil-a, and a number of others i can't remember now, for years.
I don't have geico so I can't help there. What is the second company?
LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)It is not difficult to transfer your prescription list from one drugstore to another. Boycotting these companies and letting them know why is critical.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,414 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)SEARCH
These are Fox News' leading advertisers
WRITTEN BY MEDIA MATTERS STAFF
PUBLISHED 07/26/19 1:37 PM EDT
UPDATED 02/06/20 2:00 PM EST
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This list is updated on a weekly basis.
Leading advertisers
Sandals Hotel
Procter & Gamble
Tivity Health Inc (Nutrisystem & South Beach Diet)
Liberty Mutual
Expedia
Allstate
Bayer
GEICO
IAC (Angies List, Match.com, & OurTime.com)
MyPillow
General Motors
Lifelock
NewDay USA
Glaxosmithkline
Carvana
Pfizer
Dine Brands Global (Applebees & IHOP)
USAA
Abbott Lab (Ensure & Glucerna)
Kraft Heinz
Six117
(205 posts)2naSalit
(86,775 posts)Walmart, Amazon. All those already mentioned are already not on my list of goods and service in use in my life. I tell people I won't use/shop at these places because they are against my religion.
Doremus
(7,261 posts)If we can harness even a small fraction of the astronomical buying power of the American public we will get their immediate attention
Its the 2020 version of a general strike.
yellowdogintexas
(22,270 posts)Walmart; Chic-Fil-A, Hobby Lobby, anything I can identify as a Koch product. Paper products are the easiest: Georgia Pacific is their paper company, Dixie products and I think one other.
P & G is a big advertiser on Fox News. Now P & G has had its own trials and tribulations with the RWNJ religions groups over their "Satanic" corporate logo. P & G stood firm and refused to change the logo which they had used for over 100 years. They might be responsive to a letter campaign, considering how they were harassed. (Bonus, they sued Amway over this) With P & G I'd rather do that than boycott.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procter_%26_Gamble#Logo_myth